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In South Africa’s criminal justice system post-1994, the Timol case is the first to enact what can be properly understood as restorative justice.
The Dutch holiday on May 4 that commemorates the country’s dead from World War II and after reveals how Dutch policy divides people along racial lines and ignores the Indonesian dead in that war.
Nelson Mandela’s dream of a great rainbow nation has been badly but not fatally undermined by corruption, violence and inequality.
To claim that protests are being organised suggests sinister motives. But all protest is organised. So are cake sales and shopping expeditions.
Fifty years after the founding of South African Students’ Organisation this anti-apartheid movement remains a model for student activists.
The action plan offers no information about budgets, oversight, clear standards for measuring progress or accountability mechanisms.
There is a huge divide between what is important right now and what the election is likely to be about.
A collection of prison letters provides a peek into the suffering of South African liberation hero, Robert Sobukwe.
A progressive Afrikaans newspaper will be relaunched soon. But Vrye Weekblad can’t trade on its history alone. It will need to consider the challenges of the present and the future.
Songstress Dorothy Masuku once told South Africa’s public broadcaster that music was like breathing for her.
The high costs of finding work make it difficult for young South Africans to get jobs.
Wherever there is an ugly, unresolved injustice pulling at the fabric of a society, there is an opportunity to haul it out in public and deal with it through a truth commission.
Hugh Lewin is best known for two books that arose from his early involvement in the anti-apartheid underground.
Christian leaders played a very significant role in fighting apartheid. One of them, Peter Storey, tells in his autobiography what shaped his convictions.
Villagers from a community in South Africa’s Eastern Cape fought to be consulted and for the power to consent to mining their land.
The Algerian revolution had a profound effect on both Mandela and Fanon’s thinking about colonisation, oppression and freedom.
Twenty years after the final report of South Africa’s Truth Commission, dealing with the past will always remain “unfinished business”.
More attention needs to be paid to aligning South Africa’s family policy with the realities of everyday life.
Polls indicate that South Africans are unlikely to totally abandon the African National Congress.
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Senior research fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Senior Lecturer in Sport History, Stellenbosch University
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor, Centre for the Advancement of Non-Racialism and Democracy (CANRAD), Nelson Mandela University
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Dundee
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Research fellow, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela University
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Research Associate at UCT's Centre of Criminology, Consultant at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), University of Cape Town
